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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft's Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's safe because of no TPM usage. You can boot from an encrypted drive, it'll prompt for the key instead of auto loading from vulnerable hardware

[–] Natanael 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bitlocker supports the same usecase, but everybody wants that automatic boot feature so...

It also lets you store a secondary key on a server and require the computer to be on trusted networks to be able to retrieve it to boot, but I've never ever heard of anybody using that

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it uploads the key to microsoft servers when you do that

[–] Natanael 2 points 9 months ago

That's the default, but you can block it in the command line configuration tool